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Columbia Field, originally Curtiss Field, is a former airfield near Valley Stream within the Town of Hempstead on Long Island, New York. Between 1929 and 1933 it was a public airfield named Curtiss Field after the Curtiss-Wright aircraft corporation that owned it.
Curtiss Field, a city park named for the airport, still occupies a portion of the site, [3] while a nearby restaurant displays several photos of the old landing strip. [4] In 2008 St. Paul author Roger Bergerson published a comprehensive history of Curtiss Northwest Airport, which is available at online retailers, local bookstores and public ...
Columbia Field, a former airport in Valley Stream, New York, that was named Curtiss Airfield in the 1930s; St. Louis Downtown Airport, which was formerly known as Curtiss-Steinberg Airport between 1929 and 1940; Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, formerly named Curtiss-Wright Field from 1929-1959
Curtiss Field, a 300-acre (120 ha) airport on the original site of Hazelhurst Field, occupied half of the western portion along Clinton Road. Roosevelt Field occupied the remainder, consisting of seven hangars and a large parking ramp adjacent to Curtiss Field, and an east–west packed clay runway 5,000 feet (1,500 m) in length on the bluff.
Curtis Field 1941 Classbook. Curtis Field (IATA: BBD, ICAO: KBBD, FAA LID: BBD) is a city-owned airport three miles northeast of Brady, in McCulloch County, Texas. [1] The airport is named for Mayor Harry L. Curtis of Brady, who proposed the site as an auxiliary field for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). [2]
Petoskey's success on the football field this season was planned out around 10 years back, when the first Northmen district title came at Curtis Field:
Reservists initially flew and maintained seaplanes from shore facilities on Lake Michigan and a small field at Naval Training Station Great Lakes. These facilities eventually became inadequate for newer and larger aircraft entering the Fleet in the 1930s, and it was recommended that the NRAB be relocated to Curtiss-Reynolds Airport/Curtiss Field.
The airport was originally known as Curtiss-Wright Field, hence the letters "WC" in its airport codes. In 1945, Curtiss-Wright sold it to Fliteways, Inc., the airport's property manager since 1936. [5] Milwaukee County purchased the airport from Fliteways in July 1947, when it was 131 acres (53 ha) in size.